Trim for windows, doors, etc.



Marh 15, 1932. H JQSTRQN'G I 1,849,412

TRIM FOR WINDOWS, DOORS, ETC

- Filed Dec. 4, 1926 l hl -Patented Mar. 15, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

HARRY J. STRONG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO TRIMPAK CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK TRIM FOR WINDOWS, DOORS,

' Application filed December 4, 1926. Serial No. 152,595.

My invention relates to the preparation of the decorative woodwork used in dressing window and door openings and other openings in building walls.

It has for its object the provision of trim adapted for such uses in units of partial elements that may be easily combined to form complete equipments of trim for wall openings of standard sizes. Such units effect economies of time and money in preparation and handling and quantities suflicient to meet the demands of trade may be stored in the dealers warehouse in a small fraction of the space required by former methods of providing trim. There is also a very great saving in material.

Trim used for such purposes has heretofore been prepared in random or promiscuous lengths. The builder was then under the necessity of cutting it to the required'lengths to make the window or door trim. This method of merchandising the material in random lengths has required the dealer to buy, pay freight on, and store much material which could not be used. It required, also, both of dealer and builder, a very considerable loss of time and waste of material, due to cutting and fitting, assorting and assembling and other necessary operations.

Many plans have been proposed unsuccessfully in the past to obviate the great loss of time and material incident to the old methods. It has, for example, b'eenproposed to cut the trim at the mills, assemble in a single package enough parts to make the trim for a single window or door and to furnish it to the builder in units so assembled. This, however, resulted in losses as great as when the trim was sold in long lengths; for the sizes of windows, for example, varying as they do as to horizontal'and vertical measurements, required approximately one hundred and fifty different types of such window units alone to be made up at the mills and to be carried in stock by the dealer. Such units were impossible to handle and proved so unsatisfactory that the practice has been practically abandoned.

It is well known that wall openings are standardized as to size. The standards used,

done in so far as trim is concerned by the method of my present invention.

I have found, however, that a-sy'stem of units consisting ofassemblies pf cut vertical parts and separate assemblies of cut horizontal parts of windows, doors, transoms or other wall openings, may be devised so that relatively few types of units, not exceeding 27 types, may serve, by reason of the combinations of which they are capable, to form far more than one hundred and fifty different sizes of windows.

The invention will be more clearly understood from the drawings, to which reference is now made:

Fig. I represents a unit consisting of parts adapted to be used in trimming the sides of a window opening.

Fig. II represents the cross-sections of the parts shown in Fig. I along the line ww.

Fig. III represents the preferred method of grouping said unit under reference indications.

Fig. IV represents a unit consisting of the parts necessary to trim the top and bottom of a window opening.

Fig. V represents the cross-section of the parts shown in Fig. IV along the'line g z Fig. VI shows the preferred method of grouping, said unit under reference indications. v

As will be seen from Fig. I, the unit comprises all the elements necessary to trim the vertical sides of a window. These are two side casings, a and 72, two side back bands, 0 and d, and two side stops, 6 and f. One side casing, a, one side back band, 0, and one, side stop, e, comprise all the material necessary to I Window openings of standardized sizes,

trim one side of a window 0 ening, and the corresponding parts, 6, d an are sufficient for the opposite side. All these parts are bound together or packed and bear a reference indication denoting a linear dimension which conforms to the vertical dimensions of numerous standardized sizes of window openings. I prefer for this purpose to enclose the parts in a corrugated, paper-board package, which may be of square cross-section, as shown in Fig. III to enable the same to be easily stacked in the warehouse. The dimensional indications and other matter may preferably be placed upon a label, 9, upon the exposed end of the package for facilitating the selection of the units.

In Fig. IV, 7:. is the head back band, 2', the head casing, and k, the head stop, being the portions of trim suitable for the top of the window opening; the apron, Z, and the stool, m, comprise the trim to be utilized on the lower part of the window opening. These are assembled and packed in the same manner as in the case of the side parts as shown in Fig. I, and a label, n, on the end which is to be exposed in stacking may bear a reference indication denoting a linear dimension which conforms to the horizontal dimensions of numerous standardized sizes of window openings.

In the industry standardized sizes of window openings long in use in the New York and western markets conform to the following tables of vertical and horizontal dimensions Vertical Horizontal 3 ft. 2 in. 1 ft. 4 in. 3 ft. 10 in 1 ft. 6 in. 4 ft. 6 in 1 ft. 8 in. v 4 ft. 10 in v 1 ft. 10 in. 5 ft. 2 in 2 ft. 0 in. 5 ft. 6 in. 2 ft. 2 in. 5 ft. 10 in. 2 ft. 4 in. I 6 ft. 2 in. 2 ft. 6 in. 2 ft. 6 in. 2 ft. 7 in. 7ft. 2in. .2ft. 8in. 2 ft. 10 in. 3 ft. 0 in. 3 ft. 2 in. 3 ft. 4in. 3 ft. 8 in. 4 ft. 0 in. 4 ft. 4 in.

therefore, may measure vertically in accordance with any one of the vertical measure ments given in the fore oing table but might have practically any 0 the horizontal measurements of this table.

measure thesame in height, as for example,

Thus windows might 4 5ft. 10 in.,-but might differ in widths measur- King,- for example, 2 ft. 0 in., or 2 ft. 6 in.,

for-33ft. Oin and so on.

Itjwill thusbe evident that my system of which'j comp ises ten different vertical units adaptable to the ten standardized vertical dimensions shown in the foregoing table This number is far in excess tical purposes some units of the larger dimensions, both vertical and horizontal, may if desired be omitted. Thus single windows measuring seven feet two inches in height and four feet four inches in width, although standard, are so seldom used in building that this size may be found undesirable to include in the system of units.

It is further to be pointed out that the dimensional indication marked on any given unit is a reference to a vertical or horizontal dimension of a standard Wall opening and is not indicative of the size of the trim composing the unit. The trim composing the unit is of different sizes; for each piece of trim difiers in width and length from the other pieces in the same unit. There may be as much as a foot difi'erence between the longest and shortest pieces. Furthermore, to allow for fitting or adjustment to difierent standards, each piece of trim is made one inch longer than is required to trim wall openings conforming to the New York standard. In this manner, my system of ten vertical and seventeen horizontal units is rendered adaptable to the various local standards of wall openings as well as to those of the New York standard, for these local standards differ from the New York standard only slightly.

It is to be understood, also, that the system of units of this invention is applicable to trim for door, transom and other wall openings as well as to window openings. For example, the vertical units for trimming an "inside door of a building may comprise four side back bands, four casings, two stops and two jambs, while the horizontal units may include two head back bands, two head casings,

one'stop and one jamb. The dimensional indications conform to the appropriate vertical or horizontal dimensions respectively of standard door openings.

The trim may be cut by automatic machinery at the mill and there bundled, wrapped or packed in appropriate units bearing the suitable dimensional indications.

In the two units of window trim represented in the'drawings accompanying this application, there are eleven different patterns of trim. By the methods at present in use, it would be necessary for the mill to ship, the dealer to store and the carpenter to hunt for,

assort, assemble and out these eleven difierent patterns of trim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, prepared trim elements in a package containin a predetermined assemb y of trim parts 0 unlike form and dimensions adapted to trim one of the dimensions of a wall opening and so arranged as to combine with other assemblies of trim elements of the other dimensions to provide finished trim for any given size oi opening.

2. As an article of manufacture, prepared trim in a package comprising a selected number of units of predetermined unlike form and dimensions adapted to trim one of the dimensions of a wall opening andcarrying indicating means; any one of said cups of units being thereby adapted to com ine with the units of another simllar group to provide finished trim for any given size of opemng.

3. In trim for wall openings comprising trim elements adapted to dress the horizontal dimension of such 0 nings, and other trim elements adapted to ress the vertical dimension of said openings, a bundle of elements of trim for dressing one of said dimensions of a single opening, said bundle being adapted and arranged to combine with any one of a plurality of trim elements for dressing the other dimension of such openings to furnish complete trim for any size of wall opening. 4. A bundle either of vertical or horizontal elements of trim adapted'to interchange with j other bundles of the opposing dimension to effect complete dressing of any wall openings of any size in the said opposite dimension.

In witness whereof, I have subscribed my name hereto this 27th day of November, 1926.

HARRY J. STRONG. 

